Adam's Blog

This was my first time working on a Wolverine title. I had to do this book more or less in three days so I broke a personal record with how fast I had to work. But I still managed to try a few things that I was happy with in the end.

This was probably the first Spiderman book of me starting to venture off in style again. I've always been hisitant to do something too radical on a MA title, but I've been approaching it like McFarlane did Amazing Spiderman, slow steps till one day they say, "WTF?" LOL

I woke up extra early and I thought I'd start off my morning by putting in at least an hour into a color study/painting--for once. And after an hour I ended up with something way too embarrassing to post. So to redeem myself I decided to do another quick study. To keep from getting too detailed I decided to do it extra small.

A color study from a photo.

A warm up sketch I did from a photo. I drew her pretty cartoony then I slowly made it too realistic and boring once I started painting too much. And then lost the likeness. She looks like Imogen twenty years later.

I've been so busy the last several weeks I haven't made any time for my warm up sketches. So to do something I decided to color a pic out of my sketchbook. I think I was looking at an ad for Apple Bottom or one of those urban brands that cater to women with...well you know. I saw Paul Richards do this toned paper kinda thing once so I decided to try something similar.

Usually before or after a book I try to think about what different elements I can bring to my coloring. My newest project is to add more color to my art. After looking at some of the other colorist's work out there, I decided to screw with a piece I colored around a year ago. The first one is well...the first one, and the second one is me playing around with it (a few characters anyway) this morning. I think this is the first time I've ever pulled out old art of mine, usually when it's done I just move on. ...mostly cause I can't stand looking at it again. LOL

After I finished those few issues of She-Hulk I moved over to MA Spiderman. These were from the first issue I worked on.

For my warm sketch (which I haven't done in a long time) I decided to do a sketch based on the variant cover of Marvel's Sky-Doll #1 variant reprint. Issue number one was sold out everywhere in town within days of the original and the reprint coming out. I FINALLY got my copy of number one a few days ago.

This is the poster for the comic Debbie Does Dallas. This time I did this to be a little bit more like the comic. The text will be changed though. The "porn" comment was me being stupid.

I also decided to make Debbie more slender instead of all curvy and hoochie-fied like the Candy Striper girls. I figured cheerleaders are usually leaner. I wanted her body to say more "athletic", instead of 50 Cent video. LOL Since Debbie is kinda thrown into an apocalyptic situation, I decided to make her a little surprised. I tried to hack Dean Yeagle a little bit to pull it off. ...gotta love the master.

It's funny how this transpired. I'm the colorist on Candy Stripers, but I felt like painting a pinup for the book. Then I got this idea for a retro type '70s movie poster. Everyone liked it so they're going to make prints for San Diego Comic con. They're going to change the text, this was the first draft. Originally I didn't plan on this being "for the book", so this one doesn't have as much to do with the comic itself. It was more a reason for me to draw naughty nurses. The book is actually a very dark and gritty fairy tale. I plan to do a set of these for all the Terminal Press/Arrow Productions comics.

I got this story (for coloring) Friday afternoon and it was due Monday morning. The hi-res files weren't requested until three weeks later. Yeah...it was like that. Although I crammed these pages into two days, I did like a few things about them.

After reading Beth's comment I decided to poke fun at a practically naked woman with a jacket. I'm not saying she won't catch a cold....but she does have on a jacket. LOL

This is the promo for Candy Stripers, a book coming out later this year from Terminal Press. And yes this book is based on the adult movie from the '70s. Though it won't be an "adult" title, it will have a "mature" rating though. It's drawn by Garrett Eisenheim and colored by me.

A BBWU/Warmup sketch. It was from a photo of the badass Kelly Hu.

I was reminded just now why I don't put faces on my sketches. Once I put eyes on there I won't leave the face alone until I'm comfortable with it (which that never happens). So my "warm up sketches" with faces turn into drawn out title bouts. Why did I become an artist again? Oh yeah, cause selling insurance stunk.

These pages I colored from Marvel Adventures Hulk #9. I read a review of this issue on a comic site and they basically bashed the script. Why you're thinking? Because Doc Sampson stole Bruce Banner's girl. I'm thinking if I had the choice of stealing the Hulk's woman or Tony Soprano's woman, I'm taking Tony's. Call me crazy.... Apparently Hulk and Sampson fought about it and you can see Sampson didn't win.

I like looking at pulp art and older comics and illustration from time to time and I came across White Princess of the Jungle. So it seemed to be another Sheena, Shanna, jungle woman book. Since I had already poked fun at Jungle chikcs, I decided to do something different for my warm up sketch. Behold: SHENIQUA BLACK GODDESS OF THE PROJECTS.

I started to like the gesture that I started but I should have done some things to correct her posture a little. But I guess on BBWU sketches I don't really give myself much time. So whatever I barf out gets posted.

Here's another page that I scanned from my sketchbook. I decided to bring the pic into Painter and do a little highlight and shadow execercise. I didn't technically do that, I just sorta messed around. That's the beauty of art, as long as you have no preset goal in mind, you can't go wrong. Well, sorta.